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A user's home directory is the initial directory when a user logs in. Normally the user may create files and directories only in in home directory (apart from temporary directories). Also various settings (user specific startup files and such) are usually stored in the user's home directory.

Server is just annother name for a host (a computer). Think of a computer that offers other computer some kind of service (e.g. web server, file server, etc.)